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Toscani at The Edge

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Oliviero Toscani holds forth on the privileged life of the designer at the DBA's Edge event, much to Erik Spiekermann's evident exasperation...

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The Edge was the Design Business Association's event matching young creative talent with more experienced practitioners, such as Michael Wolff, Erik Spiekermann, Michael Place and Richard Seymour.

These so-called 'Pioneers' – 'creatives who have achieved great things in business through their passion, vision and daring' – held workshops and one-to-one sessions over the two day event which took place last December.

As a grand finale, they all came together for a closing debate, which in this clip seems to have been dominated by ex-Benetton creative director Oliviero Toscani (much to the obvious exasperation of Spiekermann)

6 Comments

Talk about can't get a word in edgeways!

Toscani did make some very good points, and I particularly liked his comment about taking risk.
John W
2010-01-16 08:35:14

Maybe that's because I couldn't follow the whole debate, but Toscani's comments seemed to be totally out of context. He measures success based on quantity of wifes, why can't others measure it based on quantity of clients?
gcraparotta
2010-01-22 09:53:10

Have you heard of the joke with the english man, german and italian?
k.
2010-01-26 13:33:33

Clash of the titans. Brilliant.
Paul Lindsell
2010-02-02 12:35:53

Oliviero Toscani is a fucking genius. End of Story.
King Adz
2010-03-02 11:16:44

Oliviero is a classico designer in his thinking. Design is persued by 'privelidged'. He hits on core aspect of design which are not truly observed I feel; Philosophy.
DerIllustrat
2010-03-03 14:28:46

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